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When Gabriel Fahrenheit invented the first mercury thermometer, he called "zero degrees" the lowest temperature he was able to attain with a mixture of ice and salt. For the upper point of his scale, he used 96°, which he measured as normal human body temperature (we know it to be 98.6° today because of more accurate thermometers).
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More than 30% of American adults, and about 12% of children utilize health care approaches that were developed outside of conventional medicine.
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Vaccines prevent between 2.5 and 4 million deaths every year.
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The Babylonians wrote numbers in a system that used 60 as the base value rather than the number 10. They did not have a symbol for "zero."
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Everyone has one nostril that is larger than the other.